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Nurse makes millions selling her licensing exam study sheets
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- Marcia Frellick
Stephanee Beggs’ business developed in a “very unintentional” way.
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Children with ASD less likely to get vision screening
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- Marcia Frellick
While 59.9% of children without ASD got vision screening in these visits, only 36.5% of children with ASD got the screening. Both screening rates...
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COVID raises risk for long-term GI complications
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- Marcia Frellick
“Are patients attributing their symptoms to COVID, or is COVID itself creating a background of inflammation or changes in the nerves that are...
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Factors linked with increased VTE risk in COVID outpatients
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- Marcia Frellick
While the overall risk for VTE was low, age of at least 55 years, being male, and having a BMI of at least 30 and history of VTE increased the...
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Opioid overdose is an important cause of postpartum death
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- Marcia Frellick
Ob.gyns. have an opportunity to screen patients to identify those at high risk for opioid use disorder or opioid overdose, and a new law eases...
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Learning with virtual reality helps medical students retain more information
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- Marcia Frellick
Retention was better and satisfaction high, but the tool came with significant cybersickness side effects.
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No advantage for full-term aspirin in preventing preterm preeclampsia
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- Marcia Frellick
However, editorialists wrote that the questions surrounding continuing or discontinuing aspirin in a high-risk population need further...
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Notalgia paresthetica: Difelikefalin helps upper-back itch, but with side effects
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- Marcia Frellick
The main side effects reported included headaches, dizziness, constipation and increased urine output.
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FDA expands oral JAK abrocitinib to adolescents with AD
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- Marcia Frellick
The indication has been expanded for those aged 12-17 whose disease is not adequately controlled with other systemic drugs, including biologics,...
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Mental health system failing kids leaving ED
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- Marcia Frellick
Fewer than one-third had an outpatient visit within a week. Editorialists call for a “child mental health moonshot.”
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In adults with prediabetes, vitamin D cuts diabetes risk
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- Marcia Frellick
Vitamin D reduced the risk for diabetes in people with prediabetes by a statistically significant 15%, in a meta-analysis.
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Pandemic pregnancy-linked deaths up 35% from 2019
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- Marcia Frellick
Drug-related deaths increased 55.3% and deaths from homicide increased 41.2%.
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Pediatricians, specialists largely agree on ASD diagnoses
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- Marcia Frellick
But when it comes to ruling it out, the specialists agreed with the pediatricians only 60% of the time.
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Outdoor play may mitigate screen time’s risk to brain development
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- Marcia Frellick
Many motor skills developed in outdoor play are involved in daily living skills such as feeding, dressing, and toileting.
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Ecopipam reduces Tourette’s tics without common side effects in phase 2 trial
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- Marcia Frellick
Access to nonmedical therapies should be increased as children who start taking the medications early may take them for the rest of their lives....